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WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2009 – Iraqi forces, aided by U.S. advisors, arrested several terrorism suspects over the past three days, military officials reported. Iraqi security forces arrested seven people today near Baghdad and Mosul during operations conducted to find and arrest members of the al-Qaida in Iraq network. Near Mahawil, south of Baghdad, Iraqi police captured a wanted al-Qaida in Iraq member suspected of facilitating terrorist activities, including homemade-bomb attacks, in the region. Combined security team intelligence led Iraqi police and U.S. advisors to search homes where the al-Qaida in Iraq suspect may have been located. Based on preliminary questioning...

Poland changes course in Iraq 10.04.2007 Defence minister Aleksander Szczyglo has said the changes to the character of Poland’s mission in Iraq has been been imperative. The more active military approach taken by the Polish command in the central-south stabilization zone is the outcome of protracted rocket attacks on the camp in Diwaniya. The Polish counteraction is to throw back the aggressive rebel groups providing better security for the Polish contingent as well as local population. At the same time, minister Szczyglo assured there is no need to increase Polish military presence in Iraq. Commenting on the recent change of...

Poland may extend its mission in Iraq Tuesday, February 07, 2006 04:45:42 PM Poland's new president, speaking ahead of his first visit to the United States, said Tuesday that his country could extend its military mission in Iraq into 2007. President Lech Kaczynski said in an interview with The Associated Press that "staying beyond 2006 is subject to consideration," although such a move "would call for a new decision." Poland has been a staunch U.S. ally in Iraq. Shortly after taking office in December, Kaczynski approved keeping a scaled-down force of 900 soldiers in the country until the end of...

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds continued stability in public opinion about President George W. Bush, as his 43% job approval rating has not wavered in over a month's worth of polling. Likewise, Bush's approval ratings for his handling of specific issues also show little change when compared to Gallup's most recent readings. Of the seven issues tested, Bush is rated most positively for his handling of terrorism, and lowest for his handling of immigration.

By refusing to confront the truth we are not only deluding, but hurting, ourselves http://www.JewishWorldReview.com On Monday, I outlined the problem of the age: the incompatibility of Islam with a multicultural West that hides away inconvenient history and disturbing doctrine under layers of political correctness. Without stripping them off to examine the problem, all we get is a lot of wishful thinking. Historian Niall Ferguson, writing in the Telegraph on the intensifying "Muslim colonization" of Europe, has decided that such "demographic shifts" are not "invariably a bad thing." After all, seven centuries of jihad-imposed dhimmitude for infidels in Muslim Spain...